Create a method that returns a boolean given a string, using if statements to determine of the string is bigger than or smaller than 5 characters

Read this: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/String.html

Thanks so much!
Question thoguh, how come you don't use "else" for return false?

You don't need to.

The if clause will return true if the statement is true, or program will continue and encounter return false. This is more elegant, and in more complicated functions it can prevent undefined result

if you don't check if str is not null you can get a nullpointerException at str.lenght()

you should do :

if(str != null && str.length() > 5) {

This post was edited by MexG on Nov 4 2017 03:48am

Let's just be completely pedantic then:

he wanted if statments ^^

That is completely unnecessary imho. Let it throw a NPE and add that to the javadoc.

If your method is getting passed null parameters there are likely issues in the invoking method. Checking for NPE everywhere makes code look horrible and it doesn't fix the problem. There is likely a problem in the calling class if you're passing null.

Another variation using ternary that is also null safe.